Archaeological, Alethurgical, and Dispositif Analysis: Discourse Studies on Higher Education in Poland from a Post-Foucauldian Perspective
08 Feb 2021-Qualitative sociology review (Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz))-Vol. 17, Iss: 1, pp 110-132
TL;DR: The authors distinguishes and describes three post-Foucauldian strategies of discourse analysis, the combined use of which in one research project is a proposal to integrate concepts scattered in Foucault's various works.
Abstract: At the present stage of the reception of Foucault’s ideas, various theoretical and methodological trends coexist, within which the concepts of Michel Foucault are used fruitfully in empirical research One of them is discourse studies understood as an inter- and transdisciplinary research area This article distinguishes and describes three post-Foucauldian strategies of discourse analysis, the combined use of which in one research project is a proposal to integrate concepts scattered in Foucault’s various works The strategies distinguished (archaeological, alethurgical, and dispositif) are characterized by the different analytical categories, understanding of discourse, and its relations with knowledge and power The article presents selected results of the complementary use of concepts such as knowledge formation, alethurgy, confession, or the dispositif in the empirical research on the reform of higher education in Poland
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TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the analytic and political usefulness of Foucault's concept of discursive practices, which, it argues, has been much misunderstood, and the focus is on how knowledge is produced through plural and contingent practices across different sites.
Abstract: This paper has its genesis in concerns about the return to “the real” in social and political theory and analysis. This trend is linked to a reaction against the “linguistic turn”, on the grounds that an exclusive focus on language undercuts political analysis by refusing to engage with “material reality”. Foucault and “discourse” are common targets of this critique. Against this interpretation, the authors direct attention to the analytic and political usefulness of Foucault’s concept of “discursive practices”, which, it argues, has been much misunderstood. Discursive practices, as developed by Foucault, refers to the practices (or operations) of discourses, meaning knowledge formations, not to linguistic practices or language use. The focus is on how knowledge is produced through plural and contingent practices across different sites. Such an approach bridges a symbolic-material distinction and signals the always political nature of “the real”.
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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this article, Senellart et al. describe a tradition in anglais de : Du gouvernement des vivants : Cours au College de France (1979-1980) / Michel Foucault, EHESS : Gallimard : Seuil, 2012 ի
Abstract: Trad en anglais de : Du gouvernement des vivants : cours au College de France (1979-1980) / Michel Foucault, EHESS : Gallimard : Seuil, 2012
Edition etablie sous la direction de Francois Ewald et Alessandro Fontana ; par Michel Senellart
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"Archaeological, Alethurgical, and D..." refers background in this paper
...The purest form of the latter case is a confession, which is also an expression of the complete act of truth, in which the subject is both the performer of alethurgy, its witness, and its object (Foucault 2014)....
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...In the case of research into the practice of confession, it was about a specific form of government, that is, “government by the truth”—“the regime of truth” (cf. Foucault 2014)....
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...Alethurgy is “the manifestations of truth as a set of possible verbal and non-verbal procedures by which one brings to light what is laid down as true as opposed to false, hidden, inexpressible, unforeseeable, or forgotten” (Foucault 2014:7)....
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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the actual governmental configuration also has a biopolitical dimension and that fostering life (as a learning process) could turn into "let die" and even into "make die".
Abstract: The ‘European Space of Higher Education’ could be mapped as an infrastructure for entrepreneurship and a place where the distinction between the social and the economic becomes obsolete. Using Foucault's understanding of biopolitics and discussing the analyses of Agamben and Negri/Hardt it is argued that the actual governmental configuration, i.e. the economisation of the social, also has a biopolitical dimension. Focusing on the intersection between a politicisation and economisation of human life allows us to discuss a kind of ‘bio‐economisation’ (cf. Brockling), a regime of economic terror and learning as investment. Finally it is argued how fostering learning, i.e. fostering life (as a learning process) could turn into ‘let die’ and even into ‘make die’.
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...…neoliberal power, based on the responsibility of individuals, security strategies, and other liberal technologies of governing the population (e.g., Simons 2006; Liesner 2007; Cannizzo 2015; Sethy 2018), and as the multiplicity and integration of different power modalities, for example, neoliberal…...
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TL;DR: Taylor as discussed by the authors presents a Chronology of Life and Events of Dianna Taylor and discusses Foucault's Theory and Practice of Subjectivity, Ed McGushin 11. Subjectivity and Power, Cressida J. Heyes 13.
Abstract: 1. Introduction, Dianna Taylor Part I Power 2. Foucault's Theory of Power, Richard A. Lynch 3. Disciplinary Power, Marcelo Hoffman 4. Biopower, ChloA" Taylor 5. Power/Knowledge, Ellen Feder Part II Freedom 6. Foucault's Conception of Freedom, Todd May 7. Freedom and Bodies, Johanna Oksala 8. Freedom and Spirituality, Karen Vintges 9. Practices of Freedom, Eduardo Mendieta Part III Subjectivity 10. Foucault's Theory and Practice of Subjectivity, Ed McGushin 11. Subjectivity and Truth, Brad Elliott Stone 12. Subjectivity and Power, Cressida J. Heyes 13. Practices of the Self, Dianna Taylor Chronology of Life and Events
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